Wednesday, June 28th 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Westfield Trumbull Mall We are blazin’ into summer with our next Denali Night Out. Join us and Merrell at our Trumbull store for a night of fun benefiting Connecticut Forest & Park Association. We will have beer from Hanging Hills Brewing Company, wine, light refreshments, live music…

While the Connecticut Forest and Park Association has over 800 miles of Blue Blazed Trails in the state, the trail to start them all is the Quinnipiac Trail, adopted in 1929. Today the trail is 24 miles long and crosses through the extremely popular Sleeping Giant State Park. We wanted to get away from the…

Denali Night Out – Branford When: Thursday, May 18th, 2017 6:00 – 8:00 PM Where: Denali Branford, 1004 Main Street Cost: $5 Donation Denali Night Out rolls into Branford in May for a fun evening benefiting Rockland Bike Park. We are teaming up with Patagonia to bring you a night out complete with beer from…

Join us together with The North Face on May 2nd for an evening with Jimmy Chin. He’ll talk about his background, where he came from, his motivations, how he got started and some of the seminal expeditions in his career as an athlete, filmmaker, and photographer. Where: Yale University Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall 1 Prospect St, New…

Kick-off at Chatfield Hollow State Park, Killingworth Saturday, May 13, 2017 Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) announced today that registration for the 2017 No Child Left Inside® Great Park Pursuit – Connecticut State Parks Family Adventure is now open at www.NoChildLeftInside.org through Friday, May 5, 2017. Registration is not required, but families…

Denali Night Out – Old Saybrook When: Thursday, April 6th, 2017 6:00-8:00 PM Where: Denali Old Saybrook, 75 Main Street Cost: $5 donation It’s time to kick off the 2017 Denali Night Out Series! We are joining forces with our friends at Smartwool to get you excited to get outside this spring. Dust the winter…

Perhaps you have heard of the Bushy Hill Nature Center in Ivoryton because your child took a school field trip there. Maybe even you have heard of Camps Pequot & Sherwood. But did you know that the property has hiking trails that are open to the public from September through May? In fact, there are…

I’ve been working in Guilford, Connecticut for almost 4 years now and had heard a lot of people talk about hiking at Bluff Head Preserve. Yet, I still never made it up there. Finally, I was convinced to go check it out when I saw in the latest Backpacker Magazine that one of the editors…

Name John Gartsu Location Denali Trumbull How would you describe yourself in 3 words? Friendly, Nice, Adventurist What is you favorite outdoor activity and why? Skiing because of the adrenaline rush of chasing down the mountain, and seeing the earth. What is your favorite piece of gear? Skis What do you do in your free…